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Son of Putin ally has £35m London house

Documents name associates of Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska as owners of a Surrey mansion (Chris Harris)

A SON of a one-time close ally of Vladimir Putin is revealed today as the
owner of a £35m mansion in London, after the government published a list of
offshore-owned property in Britain worth more than £200bn.

Andrey Yakunin, who owns the eight-bedroom property in St John’s Wood, north
London, is the son of Vladimir Yakunin, a former member of the Russian
president’s inner circle who was blacklisted by the US in 2014.

The owner’s identity was confirmed to The Sunday Times after the Land Registry
last week released a complete list of 40,000 offshore ­com­panies that own
nearly 100,000 properties in England.

Many of them are in the most affluent areas of London.

The new list yields clues to other oligarchs and their ­families who have
acquired property in London.

Vladimir Yakunin was once renowned as one of Putin’s closest allies and one of
the most powerful men in